Body for buggies or carriages.



No. 628,2!7. Patented July 4, i899- W. S. WIL'DE.

BODY FUR BUGGIES 0R GARRIAGES.

(Application med ou. se, 189e.)

-(Nu Model.)

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UNITED STATES 'PATENT OFFICE.

VARREN SOLOMON VVILDE, OF SOOVILLF., NORTH DAKOTA.

BODY FOR B'UGGIES OR CARRIAGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,217, dated July 4, 1899.

Application iiled October 29, 1898. Serial No. '694,967. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN SOLOMON WILBE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scoville, in the county of Ransom and State of North Dakota, have-invented a new and useful Body for Buggies or Oarriages, of which the following is a specification.

' My invention relates to improvements in a body for buggies and carriages; and the object in view is to provide a strong, durable, and cheap construction in which the seat is held firmly and securely in place Without imposing the weight of the occupant on the side walls of the metallic body.

With these ends in View the invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed. y

To enable others to understand the invention, I have illustrated the saine in the acc`oman in@ drawings forminva art of this s ecib 2D 7 t lication, and in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a body with the seat thereon constructed in accordance with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View taken longitudinally through the body and the seat. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section On the plane indicated by the dotted line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4c is a detail perspective View of one of the seat-bars.

Like numerals of reference denote like and corresponding parts in each of the several iigures of the drawings. l

The body 10 of my invention is constructed from a single piece of sheet metal. The metallic blankl is stamped or struck up in a suitable form or shape to be bent into the side walls 11 and the end Walls l2. rlhese side and end walls are integral with the bottoln, and the ends of the side walls are bent or folded around the end walls at 13 to overlap the latter, said overlapping portions of the side and end walls being joined iirmly or rigidly together, as at 14, by rivets, bolts, or by welding the parts. The side walls 11 of the sheetmetal body have the extensions 15, on which is adapted to rest the seat,presently described. Underneath the body is arranged the crossbars 17, which occupy parallel relation to each other and are firmly attached to the body. The ends of these cross-bars protrude beyond the sides of= the body to provide for the Aconvenient attachment of the springs, which sustainthe body on the running-gear of the vehicle. i

To provide for the proper support of the seat on the body without imposing the weight of the occupant on the extensions 15 of the side wallsll, l employ the seat-supporting straps 18 19. Each strap is bent from a single length or bar of metal to provide the horizontal portion and the vertical legs 20, and these legs have the shouldered and threaded ends 21, adapted to receive nuts, by which the straps are secured firmly within the metallic body. within the sides of the metallic body for their vertical legs to lie adjacent to the side walls y 1l, and the extensions 15 thereof and the threaded ends 21 of said straps pass through vertical openings 22, which are provided in the bottom and the cross-bars, said threaded extremities receiving the nuts 23. The horizontal portionsof the straps are parallel and extend between the extensions 15 on a plane below the upper edges of such extensions, and said horizont-al portions of the straps sustain the weight of the seat 24. and the occupant of the vehicle, thus relieving the extensions l5 of the side walls of the Weightan'd strain and providing a strong and secure support for the seat. The seat 24 may be ofthe usual or any preferred construction Vvknown to those skilled in the art, and the bottom board vof this seat has transverse grooves 25, which are adapted to receive the upper edges of the extensions 15. The seat is thus mounted on or supported by the straps v18,'19 and connected with Athe extensions of the side walls. To secure the seat more firmly in place, I employ thebolts or screws 26,

which pass through the seat-bottom and are' secured in the straps 18 19. The seat may be easily removed by taking out the screws or bolts, and it is connected tothe body by the described means to prevent movement of said seat in either direction-that is to say, cross- Wise or lengthwise of the body or in a vertical plane.

The vertical legs of the seat-supporting straps are fastened by the nuts to the crossbars 17 and contribute to the security of at- IOO tachment of said bars to the vehicle-body, and the vertical legs 2O of said straps are se,- cured by bolts or rivets to the side walls or the extensions l5 thereof, as at 27.

Changes may be made in the form of some of the parts while their essential fezttu res are retained and the spirit of the invention embodied. Hence I do not desire to be limited to the precise form of all the parts as shown, reserving the right to vary therefrom.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim isl. The combination with a body, of springbars applied to the bottom of the body, the supporting straps arranged transversely across the body and having the legs which pass through the bottom thereof and are fastened to the spring-bars, and a. seat attached to seid supports, substantially as described.

2. rlhe combination of a. body having its side walls provided with the extensions, the seat having the grooves in its lower fece arranged to receive the extensions of the body, and the supporting-straps secured to the seat and having,r the vertical legs fastened to the bottom of the body,v substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto ztlxed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WARREN SOLOMON `NILDE. iVitnesses:

H. K. ADAMS, J. W. SCHQUTEN. 

